Ecclesiastes 7:25

Which verses does Ecclesiastes 7:25 point to?

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1. Ecclesiastes 10:134 votes

   The beginning of his talk is folly, and the end of his speech is evil madness.

2. Joshua 7:133 votes

   Get up and consecrate the people, saying, ‘Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, for this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Among you, O Israel, there are things devoted to destruction. You cannot stand against your enemies until you remove them.

3. Genesis 34:72 votes

   When Jacob’s sons heard what had happened, they returned from the field. They were filled with grief and fury, because Shechem had committed an outrage in Israel by lying with Jacob’s daughter—a thing that should not be done.

4. 2 Samuel 13:122 votes

   “No, my brother!” she cried. “Do not violate me, for such a thing should never be done in Israel. Do not do this disgraceful thing!

5. Proverbs 17:122 votes

   It is better to meet a bear robbed of her cubs than a fool in his folly.

6. Proverbs 26:112 votes

   As a dog returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly.

7. Ecclesiastes 1:13–172 votes

   And I set my mind to seek and explore by wisdom all that is done under heaven. What a miserable task God has laid upon the sons of men to occupy them! I have seen all the things that are done under the sun, and have found them all to be futile, a pursuit of the wind. …

8. Ecclesiastes 2:1–32 votes

   I said to myself, “Come now, I will test you with pleasure; enjoy what is good!” But it proved to be futile. I said of laughter, “It is folly,” and of pleasure, “What does it accomplish?” …

9. Ecclesiastes 2:122 votes

   Then I turned to consider wisdom and madness and folly; for what more can the king’s successor do than what has already been accomplished?

10. Ecclesiastes 2:152 votes

    So I said to myself, “The fate of the fool will also befall me. What then have I gained by being wise?” And I said to myself that this too is futile.

11. Ecclesiastes 2:202 votes
12. Ecclesiastes 3:16–172 votes
13. Ecclesiastes 7:272 votes

    “Behold,” says the Teacher, “I have discovered this by adding one thing to another to find an explanation.

14. Ecclesiastes 9:1–32 votes

    So I took all this to heart and concluded that the righteous and the wise, as well as their deeds, are in God’s hands. Man does not know what lies ahead, whether love or hate. It is the same for all: There is a common fate for the righteous and the wicked, for the good and the bad, for the clean and the unclean, for the one who sacrifices and the one who does not. As it is for the good, so it is for the sinner; as it is for the one who makes a vow, so it is for the one who refuses to take a vow. …

15. Jeremiah 12:1–22 votes
16. 2 Peter 2:3–92 votes
17. 2 Peter 3:3–92 votes

Which verses point to Ecclesiastes 7:25?

The 10 strongest of 15.

• Job 28:12 7
• Proverbs 2:2 5
• Ecclesiastes 2:12 5
• Proverbs 6:32 4
• Proverbs 22:17 4
• Ecclesiastes 1:13 4
• Mark 7:22 4
• Ecclesiastes 8:9 3
• Ecclesiastes 1:17 2
• Ecclesiastes 2:3 2